mines always on 24/7. im surprised none of my drive have crashed yet, they are all used prior to me getting them, and since ive gotten them, they are running 24/7. the oldest drive of mine is about 4 years old, its been running strong 24/7 the whole time.

edit: check the monitor cable, it may be going bad, or maybe your video card. you may want to try a different monitor or video card.

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I believe it's the video card. Tried it with another monitor already and got the same results.

I'm thinking of buying a new card actually, and stop being such a cheap bastard

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Originally posted by Lira I believe it's the video card. Tried it with another monitor already and got the same results. I'm thinking of buying a new card actually, and stop being such a cheap bastard

if you have an agp system, you may just want to rebuild your system around a pci-e motherboard. pci-e is the way the the fuuuuture, agp is just about dead now. i believe in a year or so, new agp cards will stop being made. the geforce 7 series has an agp card, but i have a feeling it isnt as good as it could be due to low bandwidth agp bus

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my comps pretty much on 24/7, just started having problems with it a couple days ago. first it lost the soundcard drivers, would completely freeze/restart at random times. it restarted spontaneously a few times today too...

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Originally posted by kadomony my comps pretty much on 24/7, just started having problems with it a couple days ago. first it lost the soundcard drivers, would completely freeze/restart at random times. it restarted spontaneously a few times today too...

format time?

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Originally posted by kadomony my comps pretty much on 24/7, just started having problems with it a couple days ago. first it lost the soundcard drivers, would completely freeze/restart at random times. it restarted spontaneously a few times today too...

+1 im stuck w/ agp and just got a new gfx for bf2 oblivion and f.e.a.r.

if you want any good agp cards let me know

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Originally posted by wizniz +1 im stuck w/ agp and just got a new gfx for bf2 oblivion and f.e.a.r. if you want any good agp cards let me know

ive got a 6800 in my agp slot right now, ive got an fx5700le with 256mb ram waiting for someone to buy it, or for me to get around to ebaying it

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id recommend the ati radeon 1600
NO PROBLEMS w/ overheating and it truly is an underrated powerhorse

/testimonial

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Mine's been on 24/7 for about 3-4 years. It's set to go on standby after 2 hours of inactivity.

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Originally posted by wizniz id recommend the ati radeon 1600 NO PROBLEMS w/ overheating and it truly is an underrated powerhorse /testimonial

never had problems with either of my nvidia cards, i had a radeon 7000 back in the day that gave me some driver troubles. i was able to overclock the shit out of both of my nvidia cards, with no heating problems. i got from 225/400 to 420/420 on my fx5700le. with the 6800 i got from 325/400 to around 500/775. none of the overclocks gave me any artifacts or heating problems. i <3 nvidia

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